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Lung cancer
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Lung cancer, genetic predisposition and smoking: the Nordic Twin Study of Cancer

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  • Jacob Hjelmborg Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark The Danish Twin Registry, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tellervo Korhonen Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland Kuopio, Finland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Klaus Holst Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Axel Skytthe Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark The Danish Twin Registry, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Eero Pukkala Finnish Cancer Registry, Institute for Statistical and Epidemiological Cancer Research, Helsinki, Finland School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Julia Kutschke Division of Epidemiology, The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jennifer R Harris Division of Epidemiology, The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lorelei A Mucci Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Centre for Public Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kaare Christensen Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark The Danish Twin Registry, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kamila Czene Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hans-Olov Adami Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Thomas Scheike Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jaakko Kaprio Division of Epidemiology, The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • on behalf of the Nordic Twin Study of Cancer (NorTwinCan) collaboration
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  1. Correspondence to Professor Jaakko Kaprio, Department of Public Health, PO Box 41, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland; Jaakko.kaprio{at}helsinki.fi
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Hjelmborg J, Korhonen T, Holst K on behalf of the Nordic Twin Study of Cancer (NorTwinCan) collaboration, et al
Lung cancer, genetic predisposition and smoking: the Nordic Twin Study of Cancer
Thorax 2017;72:1021-1027.

Publication history

  • Received October 13, 2015
  • Revised October 2, 2016
  • Accepted October 4, 2016
  • First published November 14, 2016.
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September 01, 2022

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